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Bloody Fingers
Personal blog · vnoel.wordpress.comprogrammingscience
Bloody Fingers is a personal blog at vnoel.wordpress.com about programming and science. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on scientific computing: switching from Matlab to Python for research, and a coding font. Commenters cite these posts as sources without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Yes, I chew on my fingers. So what ? Is that a problem to you ? Huh ? Huh ?
Most-linked posts?
- Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-05-13
What Hacker News says?
Panic Sans is also a similar, good coding font. http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/coda-coding-font-panic...
Comment linking /2007/04/25/coda-coding-font-panic-sans/
on “Mensch -- A coding font”Submitted Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage as a story · 25 points
HN discussionHere is one take on Python vs Matlab: http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-pytho... Also, check out Enthought's distribution: http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php
Comment linking /2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/
on “Python+Scipy+Matplotlib vs Matlab?”Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage https://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-pyth... 10 Reasons Python Rocks for Research (And a Few Reasons it Doesn’t) http://www.stat.washington.edu/~hoytak/blog/whypython.html Should i switch to Python? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5063037/should-i-switch-t...
Comment linking /2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/
on “Why astronomers (and other scientists) should program in Python”Python and Matlab are two different beasts, and it's not really fair to compare both of them side-by-side. If you want to Get Stuff Done (tm), then I say go ahead and use Matlab. I've used it for computer vision projects in the past, and it was good enough for me. Sure, my algorithms took forever to complete, but Matlab is a scripting language not optimized for speed (though I think you can compile .m files). But if…
Comment linking /2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/
on “What do you think about matlab? ”
